The End of the Ice Age and Its Witnesses

C URRENTLY there is increased interest in the past that extends back into the Ice Age. Physical science has developed new and more exact means of inspecting the deposits of Man and of Nature, including tests to determine their age. Geophysicists and oceanographers especially have begun to examine and compare events on sea floor and land surface over a span of some tens of thousands of years, using as principal measure the loss of radioactivity in the contained carbon.' Thus we are getting a revised and more orderly view as to the time and manner of the last waning of the continental icecaps and of their connection with the circulation of air and ocean waters in the Northern Hemisphere.2 Some facts of the presence and condition of the human witnesses of this interesting moment in geologic time are now well located in the new chronology and invite attention to synchronous events of human prehistory in the Northern Hemisphere

Geography · Glacial period · Ice age · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Paleontology

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  Open Access•James J Parsons•Geographical Review•1996

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